Susan Terris was born in St. Louis, Missouri. Mrs. Terris achieved her college education at Wellesley where she received her B.A. degree in English Literature and at San Francisco State University where she received her M.A. degree. In her early career she published several books including Ghost of Yesterday: New and Selected Poems.  The Homelessness…

I decided to research the poet, David Yezzi, because I really enjoyed his poem, “Minding Rights.” I found this poem in my Best American Poetry book, and decided to further research David Yezzi and learn more about his career and literary background. David Yezzi was born in Albany, New York and received a bachelor’s degree…

Jericho Brown was born in 1976 in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Dillard University in 1995 and later got his MFA at University of New Orleans and his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Houston. During his time at the University of New Orleans, he was a speechwriter for the mayor.…

Mark Halliday is a noted American poet, professor, and critic.  He was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Westport, Connecticut.  He earned his BA (1971) and MA (1976) at Brown University, and later received his Phd. in English Literature from Brandeis University in 1983.  He has taught English…

Charles Bernstein was born in Manhattan in 1950. He has published more than twenty collections of poetry and three collections of essays. From 1978 to 1981 he co edited the magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. He co founded and directed the Poetics Program at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He is the co director of PennSound…

James Longenbach is an American published poet, critic, and professor of English at the University of Rochester. Longenbach teaches a variety of classes, including modern and contemporary American poetry, British and American modernism, James Joyce, Shakespeare, and creative writing. Longenbach grew up in New Jersey and attended Princeton University and Trinity College. He has received…

Amit Majmudar spent his childhood in Cleveland, eventually getting his degrees at University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University.  There he started his life of becoming a poet, novelist, translator, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist. After college he moved to Westerville, Ohio with his wife and children. Majmudar has written multiple novels and many…

Nicky Beer is the author of The Diminishing House, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. She has received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a Louis Untermeyer Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and Discovery/The Nation award. Her poems, fiction, nonfiction, and…

Julie Kane was born in Boston Massachusetts and grew up in upstate New York and New Jersey. After graduating from Cornell University and then Boston University as a graduate poetry student, she moved to Baton Rouge Louisiana where she worked as a technical writer and editor. Julie Kane later went on to teach at Northwestern…

Ms. McDonough is a very well known poet who has many published poems, and will be releasing her fifth poetry collection in the coming months. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of Massachusetts- Boston, and reads her poetry at schools around the country. She is also the recipient of three pushcart prizes…